Improvement in horse-rakes



C. M. TITUS 8L L. MOOD.

Improvement in Horse-Rakes. N 132,741, Patented NW5, 1872.

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CHARLES M. TITUS Ann IIYNFRED MOOD, or ITHAGA, new YORK ,gsrun .MOODASSIGNOR T0 SAID rrrus.

IMPROVEMENT IN HORSE-RAKES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 132,741, dated November 5, 1872.

To all whom it may concern;-

Be it known that we, CHARLES TITUS and LYNFRED MOOD, of Ithaca, in the county of Tompkins and State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in Horse- Rakes, of which the following is a specification:

The invention relates mainly to the dumping of a horse-rake, and has reference to two parts of the rake-first, to the hand-lever;

and, secondly, to the use of the power of the horse in combination with the hand-lever; andthe nature of our devices and of our invention will be apparent as we describe our improvements. 7

Figure 1 is a side, partially sectional, view of a rake with our dumping device, showing which, at j, is hinged the connecting-link k,

which link, at l, is hinged to the main bar m, and which bar is fast, by its pivot or hinge, at n, to the frame-work of the rake. At 0 is the hand-lever, which is hinged at p, and lower down is also hinged, at q, to the link g, which link is also hinged, at 1', to the bar m.

The hand-lever 0 is represented as thrown, by the operator of the rake, backward to its full extent, and its action has been to depress the bar 122; and as it depressed it, by the metallic piece q the lifting-bar f and the teeth 01 were raised so that the strippers have cleared the teethof their load, and the rake has been dumped.

It will also be noticed that in the bar m, at s, is a connection for the whiffletree, and also an angle, so that before the hand-lever 0 begins, in dumping the rake, to depress the bar m, the whiffletree is back at its rearward place of movement, and the bar mthen is, in

its general direction, nearest to a straight line with the whiffletree and the link It and liftingbarf; and that as the hand-lever 0 depresses the bar m the position of the bar m between a and s becomes more and more perpendicular, and thus more favorable for a stronger draft of the horse, as it is desirable it should do, the draftincreasing constantly through the bar at on the teeth 01 until the rake is dumped-thus admirably aiding in dumping of the rake.

In the second figure the same parts are seen by the same letters. The lever 0 is, however, forward. and the foot of the operator of the rake is on it, at 20, thus holding the teeth to their work. When the parts are Claims.

1. We claim the bar m, pivoted at n to tho draft-frame b, and connected by pivots or hinges with the rake-head h, and having the whiffletree attached at s, substantially as set forth.

2. The bar m, pivoted to the draft-frame at a, and connected by pivots or hinges with the rake-head h, and having the hand-lever 0 connected at r, as and for the purpose set forth.

3. The bar m, pivoted and connected as described, when constructed and arranged with both the whiffletree and the hand-lever, substantially as set forth, as a means of dumping the rake by the double action of the horse and hand lever, as described.

4. The elongated end q of the lever o in combination with the flexure 'v of the bar m, lever o, the frame 911 connecting" to the liftingfor the purpose of checking the rearward moba-r f and rake-head h, substantially as set tion of the lever o, as described. forth.

5. The combination, consisting of the piv- G. M. TITUS. otedand connected bar m, with flexure at s LYNFRED MOOD. for the whiffletree-link, the flexnre v for Witnesses: checking the lifting of the bar m by con- S. J. PARKER, tact with the lever 0 the hinging-link k, the A. M. LUCAS. 

